CROCHET DE LUNÈVILLE
“STUDY IN FUGATO FOR EIGHT EMBROIDERERS AND AMPLIFIED LOOM”
a SYLVIO GIARDINA project

In occasion of Paris Fashion Week (27th September – 5th October), Sylvio Giardina presents the sound installation “Crochet de Lunèville – Study in fugato for eight embroiderers and amplified loom”. The event will take place at the Avista Showroom Paris – Passage de Retz.

The installation is the result of the performance presented in 2011 at Rome’s Palazzo delle Scienze-Museo Pigorini, in collaboration with Alta Roma Moda and Silvia Venturini Fendi.
The project involved eight professional embroiderers gathered around a specially built loom, engaged in the making of a huge “crochet de Lunèville” piece inspired by a John Cage score. An amplifier system connected to the loom captured in real time the sound of the crochet needle piercing the fabric and diffused it in the surroundings, improvising a musical composition that followed a sound structure based on the number 8 (fugato).
Avista Showroom Paris